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Hurricane Katrina Retrospect by Dr. A. H. Krieg e-mail: Adrain Krieg This catastrophe demonstrates more than any other thing the state to which America has sunk in the 21st century.

A story of incompetence and stupidity at every level of government for decades!

The problems with New Orleans began when Jean Baptiste le Moyene de Biemville made the incredibly stupid decision to build a city in the middle of a swamp between three water hazards, the Mississippi River, Lake Ponchatrian, and the Gulf of Mexico. Having said that Louisiana politics have always been in a sad state even before the machine-gunning of Huey Long (The Kingfish) on the federal courthouse steps in Baton Rouge. Also relevant to the situation are the facts that Louisiana and particularly New Orleans has the most corrupt political system in the entire South, and that the Mayor of New Orleans as well as the Chief of Police are black, and that 78% of the population in New Orleans is black.

America has created through the policies of both political parties (The System) a permanent underclass of socialist and communist people, they will not work, demand government services, many of which are criminals, and are destroying the inner cities of our nation. It is not their fault it is our fault. We elect the morons who make these policies, our left wing political “System” led by do- gooders, and softies have convinced the majority of the citizens that the government is the ultimate source of last resort. That we are not individuals but members of one or another group. That Americans do not have individual rights and that only group rights exist. This is a dire situation that will not soon be solved.

Behavior of the storm refugees in New Orleans and all those later transported to other cities is appalling. Action of black agitators in shooting at helicopters trying to save people is disgusting. Setting fire to buildings is unprecedented in American history. The looting of businesses not for necessities like water and food but for TV’s, electronics, furniture etc without the police reacting is sad. The rape of scores of women in some cases with police officers looking on is horrible. The action or rather the inaction of police chief Eddy Conforce a black man in not protecting his fellow black citizens from a unruly mob of black felons, rapists, is beyond the pale. Governor Kathleen Blanco’s refusal of federal help because she felt it would undermine her authority as governor demonstrates exactly what motivates an ex schoolteachers. In all observations she seems to have been more concerned with securing federal funds for post hurricane relief than with the necessary federal troops to keep the peace. With George Bush’s war in Iraq about one third of the Louisiana National Guard in Iraq making the NG unable to provide the necessary personnel for law enforcement. We’ll get the federal fools later.

The political structure for this event was: #1) The Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagen #2) the chief of police Eddy Conforce, #3) the governor of the state of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco, #4 The Head of FEMA Michael Brown, #5) the head of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, #6) The President George Bush (The Lesser) #7) the VP Dick Cheney, #8) and the secretary State Condolezza Rice.

Not to be forgotten in this situation are: The NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) The Sierra Club, and other environmentalist whackos.  They brought suite against the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers blocking the improvement of the levies around New Orleans. Save the Wetlands (Swamp to us mortals) then sued in 1977 that killed the plan for improved barriers around New Orleans. All these environmentalists combined have suites pending in courts all over America in some cases holding up construction for over 20 years. You probably remember all the huge fires in CA because these idiots brought suite to prevent firebreaks. Since the acts of these people we have lost more forest to fire than in the previous 200 years, and now we can say the same for hurricane and flood damage.

Having said all that it is important to understand that the mission of FEMA is not the protection of, or the care of the citizens of America. FEMA’s mission is to protect the government of the United States and to ensure its survival. The exact same thing is true of Homeland Security. Don’t for a moment even think that either of these agencies was established to serve and protect you! If you study their directives they are to; relocate population, move businesses, confiscate property, commandeer goods, direct labor and services, and lastly to establish marshal law. The failure of both of these agencies on the entire Gulf Coast as assumed by the citizens, is reflected in their mission, which is misunderstood by almost everyone. They did in fact not fail they accomplished their mission expediently, once you understand these facts you will also understand the results that took place.

The reaction of the entire federal organization demonstrates far beyond any scenario just exactly how distant from the rest of us our Washington establishment is. Where were all our leaders on the 29th and 30th of August when the storm hit the Gulf coast with five days forewarning? Working up from the bottom Condolezza was shopping for a new pair of shoes on 5th Ave in NYC and then went to see a play. Dick was in Wyoming on vacation. George was on vacation in Texas. Michael C. was at a briefing in Atlanta on Asian avian flue. Not until the 30th of August did he send out a memo to make a declaration on Katrina. His great idea was to give away $2,000. debit cards to mostly welfare recipients; many are being used in strip clubs, bars and liquor stores. We are not privy as to where Michael B. was but it sure as hell was not at his desk. Some comments; Condi you could buy shoes in DC I know the selection won’t be as good but the price will be lower, you could also save a lot of money on travel. Dick we would all be much better off if you remained in Wyoming for the duration, the only proposal you have come up with (nuking Iran) is so stupid we won’t even comment on it. Michel C. I have never attended a briefing in my life they are a waste of time you can always read the documentation later. Briefings are nothing but free government trips. George, well, what can I say your actions in the last couple of weeks simply demonstrate what a true looser you really are. You sent 30% of the Louisiana Nation Guard to Iraq, dummy, and then got Mexican narco troops to help us out in Louisiana.

What was the sequence of events? The Mayor, had 5 days advance notice. He did nothing for the first three days. Two days before the storm hit he proposed (at the request of the president) a partial evacuation. He stated that he did not know that the storm would hit New Orleans, where was this dummy hiding? Everyone on the Gulf Coast knew it. He had over 500 school buses as well as all the New Orleans transit system to evacuate his people. The buses as of the 2nd of September were still under water. His recourses for evacuation were more than ample for the job he used none of them. His first action was an order on Sept 8, ten days after the storm hit his city to begin gun confiscation in New Orleans, one would assume that this was to disarm whites so they could no longer protect themselves. There are on the 2nd of September over 500 School buses under water, they could easily have evacuated everyone in New Orleans together with public transit, and none were ordered or used. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security (now there’s a joke) had no plan, no contingency, no nothing even though this type of catastrophe had been anticipated for 50 years. From the Economist “Mayor Nagin (who is black) proved more adept at berating the federal government on the radio than at implementing the cities emergency plan. The Governor despite a declaration of emergency by the president 2 days before the storm hit refused federal help or the nationalization of the NG, or the offered help of federal troops. What can you expect from someone so over her head, who places political adherence before the welfare of her constituency. (Democrats always stick together and then after the fact blame everyone else.) The Director of homeland security who was attending a briefing in Atlanta on avian flu essentially did nothing. In fact he stated on TV that he didn’t know the Hurricane would hit New Orleans perhaps he was in stasis, or in Jerusalem. What did you anticipate from a retired judge? As a member of the judiciary he is in no way qualified to run Americas largest bureaucracy. When he finally came up with an idea it was to give out $2,000. debit cards to everyone, and then to increase government employee’s government credits card line from $2,500. to $250,000. Just like a politician judge if there is problem throw money at it and it will go away. On the local level every participant in Louisiana displayed an incompetence that exceeds anything else in American history. From Governor Blanco to Mayor Nagin and his side kick Police chief Ebbert all should voluntarily give up their positions. I do not think it necessary to in detail go over the rest of the miscreants but will say all this completely vindicates my assertion on national radio that every one of these people are the result of either nepotism or the Peter principal. Comments by some of the aid personnel at Houston: Between 5-10% of all these people I saw at the Astrodome should be in prison. About 20% of these people were under some type of criminal justice restraint. White volunteers in the all black refugee mass outnumber blacks at 500 to 1. Dr. Richard Johnson of the U. of Mississippi Med School reports from Houston: The people’s behavior was terrible. 99% were black they demanded help. They were looting, killing, raping, yelling and demanding. Given food they replied that they wanted McDonalds, and pizza. They acted like pigs. They had a library and a theater. I was handing out water about one in ten said thank you about 20% demanded soda or beer. The majority of these people were thug’s welfare recipients and criminals. I saw a middle aged white woman struggling to bring food up a ramp on a cart 6 to 10 healthy black men were sitting on the ramp, not one of them offered to helped her. I saw a woman offering a black family shelter, which was turned down because they wanted to stay at the astrodome to get their $2,000 debit card. The report of one volunteer: “While I was aiding a distressed family and helping them out of their destroyed home a troop of black criminals looted my truck of supplies for the victims and in the process stole my personal effects including my camera. They even stole my dog’s food”. “We were coming across the Louisiana border and it was evening, we had an escort of one state police officer and two armed local police. A group of heavily amend (M-16) black men took as much of our supplies as they could carry because they had the police outnumbered by a factor of six the police did nothing”. “We were in New Orleans, our vehicles were marked FEMA local hoodlums continuously shot at us”. “We were in a convoy of about 45 vehicles with flat bottom boats to help in the rescue. The Fish and Game officers at the border of Louisiana turned us around and told us we were not needed or wanted, and neither were our supplies. As it turned out we learned the next day that the largest hospital in New Orleans was surrounded by water and they were desperately seeking boats to help in the evacuation”. “We had two trucks full of ice brought down from Michigan each with 40,000 lbs. FEMA kept us driving around in Mississippi for three days before we were finally unloaded”. I have over 20 pages of similar comments.

The worst agency in the entire situation was FEMA an agency of Homeland Security. Chertoff’s statement that FEMA was unprepared because they were in the middle of reorganization says a lot about Chertoff and all the rest of the federal incompetents. All that FEMA and Homeland security have been reorganizing is to develop federal guidelines to take over local police forces, the National Guard units of the states, state police, sheriffs offices and other military and police functions reserved to the states by the Constitution. Headlines in various papers of the Southland: FEMA Chief Fired from previous Job, FEMA's Blocking Relief Efforts, an amazing list, FEMA won’t accept Amtrak’s help in evacuation, FEMA turns away experienced firemen, FEMA turns back Wal-Mart trucks, FEMA prevents Coast Guard form delivering fuel, FEMA prevents Red Cross from delivering food, FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans, FEMA blocks 500-boat flotilla from delivering aid, FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600 bed hospital, FEMA to Chicago “Send just one Truck”, FEMA turns away generators. FEMA to first responders “We don’t need you don’t respond”.

As usual the vultures, Jessie Jackson and his sidekick Al Sharpton have been playing the race card. The media has helped in this by only reporting on black problems and evacuation. The fact that predominately white counties of St. Bernard and Plaquemine Louisiana were completely destroyed is never mentioned.

I have seen about 200 photos and over 20 minutes of video from New Orleans in which full scale looting was in progress often with police officers standing by and doing nothing. Not one of these photos or videos showed one single white looter. To cap it all off FEMA decided to increase the spending limit on all government issued credit cards from $2,500. To $250,000. This has resulted in massive frauds by government employee’s charges in strip clubs, bars, restaurants, hotels, massage parlors, and various personal services are rampant.  The National Security Administration oversees airport security. When they had to process thousands of people they relaxed their ID requirements but searches of individuals turned up, 82 handguns, 400 knives, and 250 assorted banned items. When a contingent arrived in Denver the police Chief ran background checks on two planeloads 57 were felons. Records indicated rape, armed robbery, assaults, theft, and murder. The National Guard under the control of FEMA and Homeland Security prevented many Red Cross units from entering places. The only organization who has not only come out blameless but who was on the ground the morning the hurricane struck was the Salvation Army that is because the have a permanent presence in New Orleans and because they are a faith based organization and appear to be immune to corruption.

Dr. Krieg latest books are VALE and the New American Newspeak Dictionary, both available from Northern Voice.    
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